The Samelogic Podcast

Ashima is currently working as a Senior Product Manager at Carvana and leads the pre-purchase experience in the direct-to-consumer mobile app on iOS and Android. She has taken multiple products from concept to launch for millions of customers in the B2C space. Ashima started her role as a Technology Consultant at Deloitte and later moved into Product Management after doing her MBA. With most of her product career spent at startups, she is well-versed in scaling products in a fast-paced environment and driving iterative product growth.

Jason is a product manager at Microsoft who has experience working on both enterprise and consumer products. Jason shares his journey into product management, his current experience, and some lessons he has learned early in his career. 

Chakkaradeep is a highly passionate, outcome-driven product manager who strives to design and launch innovative software products. Chakkaradeep is currently working as a Principal Product Manager at GoDaddy. As part of the core Identity team, Chakkaradeep leads the platform team in building a secure & adaptable authorization platform for GoDaddy’s products and services.

Discussing the journey of a product manager from coding to product management, emphasizing the importance of early project stages and fast-paced environments. Exploring user experimentation for conversions and continuous optimization in post-click experiences, along with lessons in boldness and confidence in career and life.

Dhiraj Bhat is a fintech product manager experienced in launching products from conception to launch. He works at Unit21, a fintech company, to make compliance and fraud checks easy. Previously, he worked at GCoin to launch a new and responsible way of owning gold. If he's not busy building the next fintech product, Dhiraj can be found writing about football(that is really played with the feet) and product management.

Ritika is a Technical Product Manager at Arrive Logistics. She has orchestrated the development of Softwares, APIs, Robots, and Data products from inception to launch. She is outcome-driven, and she loves to work through ambiguity to build products that truly add value and move the needle for her customers. In the past, she has also worked as a Data Scientist and transformed the way organizations make decisions using data.

Heather has a software engineering and data science background, endeavoring to create and enable AI/ML-powered products that are indispensable, beloved, and empowering to all. Heathers is currently a Director of Product at Kiavi, a FinTech/PropTech start-up empowering real estate investors with modern technology, timely capital to fund opportunities, and the confidence required to unlock the value of America's aged homes. She leads all product activities to grow Kiavi's data differentiation that leads to customer growth, new revenue streams, etc. Before Kiavi, Heather was a Senior Director of Product at JLL, heading JLL's proprietary workplace experience application, powering the hybrid workplace with personalized AI-driven experiences that simplify employees' workday. The application encompasses mobiles, tablets, desktops, kiosks & panels.  Before JLL, Heather was at Google for five years and started as a data scientist and transitioned my career ladder to product management a few years in. Heather's charter was to revolutionize the recruiting industry through ML/AI. Heather and her team built Cloud Talent Solutions to match jobs and candidates better through a suite of enterprise APIs to power our customers' search and recommendation needs.

Angel Jaime is the Chief Product Officer at Yayzy, a London-based startup focused on helping individuals and businesses act against climate change based on their financial data. Throughout his 10+ year career, Angel has led the launch of mobile apps, b2b, and b2c products, and led product teams at global eCommerce and Fintech players such as Booking.com, Revolut, and Just Eat. Angel has an Executive Master of Business Administration from EADA Business School and a Master's Degree in Business Intelligence. He is also a Product Management instructor at Product School and publishes the weekly product management newsletter www.elproducto.eu.

Parth is a tenured product leader, experienced in driving products from conception to launch across Enterprise and Consumer technologies. Parth started his product career at Dell Technologies, leading the B2B eCommerce experience as a group product manager and launching a patented checkout experience for high-volume eCommerce events such as Black Friday. Parth is currently a product manager at Amazon Alexa and owns smart home products and technologies that power core voice interactions, such as "Alexa, turn on the living room lights."

Chandrika is a Growth Product Manager at Plaid, a company that provides the easiest way for people to connect their financial accounts to an app. She joined Plaid after spending ~2 years in a Growth Product role at DocuSign and a summer stint at Nike. Chandrika shares what her journey into product management looked like, how she uses her experience from DocuSign in her current role at Plaid, and what experimentation in her role looks like.